drinking-water
drinking-water


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roberts_ecofarm "Clarifying - 1. Ideally Id like to upload daily. For some sites I will be able to connect to the web either through wifi or through cell service. ..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
MadTinker "A couple of clarifying questions: do you have a time period in mind for sampling before data collection/processing? do you have any form limitati..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
stevie "Oh great project! Pinging in a couple people who might be interested: @cfastie @pdhixenbaugh @donblair @rebeccah @bhickman @JSummers Anyone have i..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
warren "Welcome! Very cool! " | Read more » over 5 years ago
jpkearns "Our systems are simpler, lower in cost, and made from common local materials. Please get in touch if you have questions - www.aqsolutions.org " | Read more » over 8 years ago
eustatic "very cool. good question regaring the water pressure control, I've often wondered that myself. " | Read more » over 8 years ago
liz "FYI Public Lab, additional informal conversation on this is also happening on the WeChat app -- let us know if you want to join there " | Read more » over 8 years ago
QMTphysicist "Hi Suiris, it good to see how filtering the tap water works. How do you take transmittance measurements using spectralworkbench? I am looking into ..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
Suiris "The test was just to measure the difference in clarity between tap water and filtered water, using a single wavelength instead of a white warm LED ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Ernie "I afraid that using a laser will not tell you much about the chemical composition of any contamints in your water. The laser spectrum is much too ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Suiris "Hi drabanus, The time span between each spectra was less than 30 seconds and the LED light had been on for quiet some time before I began the tests..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Suiris "Hi Ernie, Thanks for the great advice and information. To be honest I am completely new to te spectrometer hobby and most of what you wrote baffles..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
drabanus "One other test to characterize the stability of your spectrometer is to just repeat identical measurements after a certain time span, say minutes, ..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Ernie "Some typo's in my previous post: To normalize your sample spectrum, you will want (delete "you") to divide... Use an (delete "sample") empty bottle..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Ernie "I hope your system is mechanically stable so as to get reproducible spectra. With regard to the illumination spectrum (the LED), it is not truly w..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Suiris "I am using a Canon IXUS 120 IS for taking pictures, then I cut out the spectrum from the black background, paste it as a new image and upload it t..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
danbeavers "OK then I would like to know about your work flow. Are you using a camera attached to your computer or are you taking a picture and then processing..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Suiris "I noticed the shift too danbeavers. My thoughts are that when I cut out the spectrum from my image and pasted it as a new image I wasn´t carefull w..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
danbeavers "I wonder about the peaks appearing to shift between different exposures. Looking at the left most peak the filtered 8 second exposure is to the ri..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
Suiris "Boiling the samples down to half their volume is a great idea! Will try that next time and see if there are any volatile contaminants. " | Read more » over 10 years ago
Suiris "Hi cfastie. Thanks! The water I tested came from the faucet in Stockholm, Sweden. The water treating plants here have a hard time filtrating medici..." | Read more » over 10 years ago
cfastie "Excellent test. What do you think is in your water? Particulate matter? Or something dissolved, like a salt? Either way, if you boiled some down to..." | Read more » over 10 years ago